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PORTL 7 GUEE lace, there Musehare been - some supineneis in not • . a h sag notice of what was going .on in its neig bon r (1. He 'conciudetllSy moving the following reso, • their present Allehrtra ; artd should move that the report lie on the table, previous to heifT printed. Mr. ADAM rose to move the adjournment of the debate till Monday. He could not refrain from re gretting, at the same time, that any Hon. Member should have even intimated his doubts as to the power of the House to enforce its.privileges . ; a Power which was, to say the least of it, as ancient, as .those vt , ry privileges.—Measures most be taken, sooner or later,.to recognize their privileges as the *neient and uodoubtkl usage of the kingdom. Mr. St , t2:4lk ER was putting Mr. Adam's motion for adjourning the debate till Monday, when Mr. W. WYNNE rase, and apologized for his not attending the Committee of privileges; as he ob irded to it entirely; and it 'was not the praCtide . of Members to attend Committees, to the principle, of which they obje&ed. He was, on the whole, for the motion standing for Monday. Mr. HottsT saw no obstacle to the reception of the Report, which granringit were laid on the table, would not preclude the House from further discus sion. ,Their Committee had most duly discharged their duty, and their Report was entitled to con scleration. Legislative authority might, he was sore, settle. all. the matters in dispute; while if the House possessed such omnipotent privileges as were contended for, it was highly proper that their pri vileges should now be ascertained and declared. Mr. H. SMITH could not see theTroptiety of any novel declarations of undoubted privileges.. The uncontrolable privileges of the House of' Commons had been the means of its conservation. utioi)s : " That fos. Pitnt, Esq. Membet of this House, and late I'-e',,tieer of tire Qrdnance, has been guilty of a violation of 4f,th Ad of his present Majesty, and of embezzling the titn--f 93,00(31 • That los-. Hun'', Esq. be expelled this 'Pause." •. When the question for the first resolution was put, t! e CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER suggested the ‘.vord " misapplication" •in place - of embezzlement. Nlr.‘ CA LCRAFT agreed to the suggestion.' -Both the resolutions were then agreed to nem. con. I'l A new Writ was ordered to be issued tor the Bt - r- of Queenborough, in the room of J. Hunt, 4 -N 1. expelled this House.. COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. 1 - ;,. !'1 On the motton for bringing up the Report of the :,:ointniitee of Privileges, - Sir T. Turton opPosed it : lie_ernered into a de -3il of the proceedings on Mr. Gale Jones and Sir F. Buidett, Which, he said, he had alWays deemed ti -*aish, and had protested'. against, inasmuch as he N..ight such severity unnecessary. He had an Lb-. linrrence to the measure of the Committee; he now Asked what it had done ? It was a Committee corn 'll . posed of persons who were the cause of the mischiefs s hich' had taken place, as without their interference and authority, an Hon: Barone+ would not be now ret where he , A as. did not, nor even could deny the right of the House in co ► milting for - breach of pi vilege. In the report were ..statements wh:ch the , ;1 Committee • bad no - authority to proper opinions, which argued an. anahigy to the procte • ings of the Mr. Secretary RYDER described" the - last Hon.. Gentleman as apparently mistaking the object ,Of the proposed declaration. Considering the immedi ateimportance of the Report, however, he must op pose the adjournment' of it. . • - Mr. D. GIDDY again rose. He was convinced that the .privileges of the House were riot to be questioned in the Courts treloyv ; and that steps should be taken to stop any such process against them. Courts of Law ; lie .therefore Would oppose the bringing of it up, as Parliament must either stand or _ from the authority of its bwn proceedings,• The Crwamittee had no right to repirt the opinions of others. He expres.cd his astonishment thali.report should on the table, •yhich was to itself a breach of the privileges of the Horie; a report of a junta inure unbecile, and more devoted to the destru6tion of the interests of its country than that of Spain. The House did not aEt right in not punishing the Solicitor who had served the notice on the Speaker. He hoped there might be some attention paid to the distinction of - the cases of the .Speaker and the Ser jeant ; the latter only atiedacc-rding to his instrue tions. the name of the people, he conjured the House not to entrust its privileges to a Committee. Gentleuen might smile, but they were playing 'a I , .6ing game if they aged with . seve,ity ; they should not maintain .their rights with laxity, many of which were lost by appointing this Cum- Mr: WHITBREAD thought that the motion of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Adam) ought to be gupported. Certain variations- in the different /Reports of the Committee furnished sufficient grounds for the mo tion. He confessed himself to be adverse to new declaratior:s of their privileges ; if those privileges were the law of the land, why were new acts vr. ant ed to declare them ? Both sides, the high-privilege and the low-privilege men, appeared to hun to be in 146 wrong ; " though, said he, ifyou contend that the House of Commons had privileges at all, you are sec down for the 'most tyrannical man in' the world !"- Feeling the whole proceeding to be sblemn, and being of opinion tlrat the rep:tut was open to comments, he must vote for the adjournment of the debate. 'He would also propose a measure some what •novel, thOugh he belitved it had been acted npon in the case ot. Papers relating to Marquis 'Wel lesley, for the indi••ridual_ information UllVlembers. - The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended generally the report or `the Coininittee, but was unwilling to enter into details, as if tire report was allowed to lie on the table; Gentlemen would have an opportunity of • :making their remarks upon it. • • Mr. LOCKHART supported the motion, and Mr. HI'LLIA Eri s t% as for the adjournment. mittev. Mr. W. WYNNE ,also disapproved of the reports that bad already been receited. 'He censured the condu6t of the Hiqlse in appointing 'be Attorney- Genet al to undertake the defeni.e of the Speaker and of the Serjeaut at Arms. A matter of so much im portance ought not to be commit ted,jo a servant of the Crown, and such was the Attorney-General. The question . was, the defence of the, privileges of the Houseyand that he thought was a question at lino Much iMportence to be committed to one indi- vidual. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHECVUER observed, i he. pending question was, whether the report should be brougla - ep, and not what might or ou 6 ht to have been tl:e previous proceeding of ,the, House on to pics connected with the report. Why .did not the Honourable Gentleman (Ur. W. Wynne) previous ly enlighien them on the s subject before them ? Those who objected to the propriety of entrusting the %ind.cation of their privileges to the Attorney- General; would not, he believed, have very readily undei taken the ,painful duty. Besides, where the Crown had no posqble interest, which was now the case, what danger could arise from employing cne of its' Co - tist notional Office's ? He did not conceive that any Low Court would be found, at last compe tent to denier the question of privilege; but the only qu- stion now was, whether the Report . should be brought up. Mr. ADAM reminded the House of 'the course 'Which he had taken the liberty to suggest to them; and this course was, that before they allowed their Speaker to plead to the ation brought against them in a Court of Law, they should have , cometo some legislative declaration of their privileges; while the Solicitor who ser.ed the notice on the Speaker should have be n committed to prison. However, as their Committee had sat, he was-of opinion that the re port should b brought up, and then lay on the ta ble for general perusal. :Privileges were now to be watched over under very extraordinary -circum stances, and called for the utmost precision in their definition. Circumstances now rendered it neces sary that ail mankind should learn what were their consti;utional privileges. Mr. HORN ER wished, previously to receiving the Report as declaratory of their privileges, that . the _matter and wording of it should . be maturely dis- On the motion that. the report-do lie on the table, . Mr. HORNER repeated his former arguments 3gain,t the reception of it; and moved, as an amend ment, .that tile report be recommitted. Mr. Wit.BcitFoace expressed his apprehension that people' out of doors were too much iu the habit of ascribing the proceedings of that HOLM to party feelings: From a long Parliamentary experience he was satified that that was not the case, but that all sides of the House was sincere in their wishes for ►he public good. Adverting to the efforts which had been made to-diminish the priv'ileges of the House, he characterised them as in the highest degree mid. , chie'vous. The Constitution of the Country, excel lent as, it. was, 'found, its best safeguard in the power and privileges of the House of Commons, add he was convinced that the individuals who attacked that power and those privileges, were desirous of loosen ing the pins by which the. Government was held together. He was anxious that the report upon this subject should be one not merely adapted to the ca pacity of learned men, but which should be generally intelligible by the Public. Mi781101./GHAM argued in favour of laying the re port on the table. , • 'Mr. W. WYNNE stated an inaccuracy in the re port, occasioned by the substitution of • the name of Wilson for She'ridan, in one- of the precedents, which, in his opinion, required that it should be re committed. Mr. PARNELL also described several other errors, which he conceived demanded revision. Mr. ROSE and the CHANCELI . ,OR of the EXCHE QUER supported the original question, and Mr. WHITBREAD . the amendment ; atter which the amendment was negatived, and the original question carried without a division. cussed. Here Mr. SPEAKER interposed ; observing, that the question now was, that the Report be brought 'up, and read; which was accordingly done. Mr. D. GIDDY, as Chairman of the Committee, felt it neces,ary to say a few words. It was greatly tb be regretted, he thought, that they were actually in the constitutional possession' of very extensive privileges, which they had hitherto no effeelual means of asserting ;—and it was.on this account that _their Committee' deemed it expedient, in the Re port just read, to recapitulate the occasional `recog nit jon of such privileges in specific instances. This he also thought due to the present enlightened slate of the country. As an- ult4ior measure,, it might be found indispensable in them to state, as they should ste fit, the nature and extent of their, privileges; .but this they would do without respea to that low and contemptible faction, which tried to make up for the -smulness of- their numbers by the loudness of their clamour. Yet, called upon as they were, to assert their privileges in a Court of Law, he was persuaded that they, ought not to pro ceed ag-;l4isti those who stood up to plead the caus e of him had contested their privileges,and there by deprive him of his legal support. Would , that he at all lair ? arid expediency has rego hied his vote in the committal.. of Sir Francis Bur dett; and discretion and expediency ought to regu late all their proeeedFngs. He confidently expected that some measure would be taken to rescue the House •of Commons from the pcssibleleCurrence of Mr.- W. WYNNE moved, that the whole of the Appendix, under tete head " Analogy ) ", be struck out. This motion Was also negatived without a divi sion. - The report was then ordered to be "printed.' INNKEEPEIIS RATES OF SUBSISTENCE. Mr., BASTARD, after expatiating on the evils which the Innkeepers sustained in consequence of the insufficient ailokances for soldiers, &c. moved to refer the various ; , :titions on this subject to a Committee of the whole House. 'Mr. SHAw LEFEYHE SecOlided the motion. Lord PALMRSTON thought the Hon. Gentle man's motion premature, als it was in contempla [ton to introduce a Bill for the purpose of granting to the Innkeepers the relief which they required. Mr. BAsTAtin urged the propriety of at least hear ing what the Petitioners said. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended, that the intention of. proposing a Bill for their relief precluded the necessity of referring the Petitions to a Committee. . CAVENDISH BRADSHAW said a few words, af ter which the House ,divided. . . Mr. SHAN.v. gave notice that, he should on Monday next, move (or a Return of . all Newspapers charged with Postage- in the Dublin Post-office, addressed LONDON : Printed by RIC At -tit wtN•OFF; ••• „ . tinder privilege of, Meinbers Rirliament, since the first - of March and the cause there o f. The Warehou,ing Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Workhouse and Starrip Duties Bills went through Cornmiittes; 'the Reports of. Which ~ w ere ordered to be reCeived,to-morrow. The Report of the Poor Overseers' Bill was, taken into further consideration, and re-:committed. The Bill then went. through, a Committee, the Report of which was ordered to be received to-.morrow. The CHANCELLOR 'of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee on tilt-, Assessed Taxes. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY objeaed to everY order of the day taking . precedence of that respeEting his Bill. A short conversation followed, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained th& , . reasons which influenced.him in wishing for the CommUted on the as,;essed taxes.—The Speaker assqrte.d . his • claim to impartiality ; and Sir S. Romihy did j: , stice to the upright cendoet of the Chair. _ The 14,,use re4olved itself into a Committee on the Assessed Taxes, The Chancellor or the Ex chequer proposed certain regulations, and moved that carriages drawn by mules should be taxed in the same proportion as those.drawn ty horses.— The Rrport of the-Committee was ordered to be re ceived to-mortow. ' . Mr. LpSHINGTON .brought up the Report tf the Navigable Canal Robbery Bill, the %resolutions 'Of which were read and agreed to, and the Bill older ed to be engrossed and read a third time on Woliies . - day._ Mr. WHARTON brought in a Bill fOr preventing Surcitarges in the.colledtions of the Asses , e,t Taxes. It was read 'a first And second time, and ordered to be committed to-mot row. • • The bill for rrgulating tie mode for raising Sol diers to serve in the East Indies was read a second time time, and cotnroitt.d for Friday. Mr. M. FITZGERALD MON- , 4 second reading of the Irish Grand Jury Bill.. He :said •he did not I wish to. press it'npun the House this Session ; he merely wished to have if proceed as far as a Coin mittee, that the blanks might be filled up, and the Bill print.. d, in order. that the . Gentlemen of Ireland might have an opportunity of considering' it during . the vacation, and come prepared to decide upo'n it .• next Session. .Mr. W. POLE said, he certainly came into 'the House with . the intention of oppoiing the .Bill alto gether, but the mode proposed by. the Hon. Gen tleman appeared to him so fair, that he should not ' objed to it. He had no other motive for the oppo sition which he meant to•make to this Bill, but that he thought it a bad one. He should however, feel it his duty to concur with what appeared to him • to be the general setlse of the ,Gentlemen of Ireland 'upon it, after they had: fall time to consider it ; • if their opinion was in favOnr of. it, he would with . draw his opposition, and freely acknowledge himself mistaken. The principle of ,this Bill was to with draw the poweis now vested in the Grand Juries; respe6ting the raising and accounting for the money granted for county purposes, and to throw it into the hands of the Quarter Sessions. To this measure, as at pfesent informed, at least,. he ,could not give his assent, but' as the Bill was to' remain over till next Session, he should not .occupy more of the time of the House at present. After a few words from Mr. Fi!zgerald, the -Bill was read a. second time, and cOmmitt l edifor MOnday. • The Committee on the Poor Settlement Bill was postponed to Wednesday next. The House resolved itself into a 'Committee to take into consideration the. Duties on Coals import ed by inland navigation, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, that an Additional Duty of Ten Shillings per 'Ton should be laid on Coals brought by inland navigation nearer to the City than 'the stone placed by the Bridge of Staines. The Report was ordered to be received to-mor row. On the motion of Mr. 11. DUNDAS, 'Accounts of Monies Expended for the Naval Service in the East Indies, were ordered to be laid before the House. The Foreign Silk Regulation Bill went through p Committee, the report of which was ordered to be received to-morrow. Adjourned at half past 12. Extra& of a Letter from oit board the Castilian sloop of war, dated the 17th instant :—" Ye•terday we ran a large privateer on shore, undo the bat tery of Triport, after an anxious chase of six hours; we an hundred times made'sure of her, when sud denly she caught the breeze, and we were as often disappointed. Although the battery, situated on-an, eminence, was firing at us red hot shot, yet We fol lowed ourchjed to within pistol shot of the - shore; and gave her three broadsides. As her deck was full of men, the slaughter must have been very, se.' were. • The French co as t was a ll i n uproar ; the inhabitants. ran out of the town, and sought refuge on t 3 hill at the back of Triport, and there waited for our departure our studding-sail was shot to pieces, but wd had not a man hurt." A- shocking accident happened at Carnarvon, on the morning of Saturday the sth inst. The chim ' ney of a house in _Southern Penrallt-street, occu pied by David Jones, the :Fanybwlch post, and his son-in-law, daughter, and their infant child, was observed to be on fire about nine o'clock' on Friday night. The fire in the chimney was supposed to have been exringuiihed, and the family retired to rest: David 'Jones occupied the lower apartment, and - his son-in-law the upper one, to which there ' were distina cations from the street. About three o'clock on Satuitlay morning the husband awoke, nearly suffocated with smoke, and endeavoured to rouse his wife and child, but in doing So he was so dreadfully scorched that, he was Obliged to make his escape. David Jones, finding his daughter and child were left behind, rushed into the flame's to rescue them, when, shocking - to relate, the three fell victims to the devouring element. The fire vas- got under in about an hour, and their remains taken from among the ruins,' Spectacles too horrid to describe. It . is supposed that some -latent sparks in the chimney, which 'was chiefly wood, had re-kindled, and were the cause of this catastrophe. Wri. Ews, Esq. the Coroner for the Borough, took inquisitions on the - bodies the same morning, when the Jury brought in verdicts of A c cid en t a l Lath. The Pro vi YBSTL• Bank Stock, 2 , 53 i Navy 5 per Cent rota Irish 5 per Cent. per L . cnt. 85 a j Cent. Red 7oi 3 per Cent. Cons. 7ai 71 Bank Ann. 18 a r t-r6ths HARI) HARRIS, ct No, 4, Mattlett.c:ourt, Bow.stleet ; and Published by IVI ELI Ark tuti G It SCRIPPS, South Molton.sqeet, nrocvem7r tquafe. ICE, No, tiv, Strand, where Advertiserriehts, ;orders fait the Pakri Letters for the ISditot, &c. (post-paid), must be addlessed. Ltsth)ic, MAY- I:2.—We • are now able to' corn tnunicate at length the Decree of Napoleon, in which he unites to. France all the countries on_that "side of the Ebro. • This Decree resembles that of the blockade of the .13titish - Isles, or that other by - Mali he Constituted his dept. Brother King of the TWo Sieilies, without his ever having set loot in the one, tlkough .he had' become the transitory King of the other. He is the first King who has promul gated Decrees' for. countries 1i never possessed and what is most amusing, es, that at the very time when this Decree is dated, O'Donnel defeated the• French in Catalonia. By the 6th title it appears that Blionaparte intendi to extend this Decree to the wh o le o 4 'Sp a i n .— The Decree is dated front the Palace of the Thuil: leries; Feb. 1-0, 1810: Considering that the . enormous sums which out army of Spain costs us, impoVerish our treasury; . and oblige our people,to make sacrifices which thek cannot support considing on the other band, that the Spanish Administration is without energy, and tri many provinces does not even exit ; and So far from being able to derive any advantages from the resources of (he country,.leaves them to be eau- •, ployed by. the :insurgents ; .we have decreed and do deetee as follow : ' •. ' , TITLE 1.-OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA. I. The Seventh Corps of the Army of Spain shall take the title of , the Army .of Catalonia. 2. The Province o! Catalonia shall- form a par ticular Goverument, under the title of the. Gover nment of Catalonia. 3. The Commander in Chief of the Army of Ca talonia, shall be Governor of the Province, and shall unite .the civil-and militarY rowers. 4. Catalonia shall be declared in a state of siege. ,5. The Governor shall be charged with the ad ministration of justice and finance, and make 'all ne cessary regulations. . • • 6. All the rents of the Province, or ordinary im posts; shall -be paid into the chest of the army, to be,applied to the payment ,of the troops, and the maintenance of the army. , T.ITLE 2.---OF THE 'GOVERNMENT OF ARRAGON--" _• SECOND GOVERNMENT. • General Sachet shall be Governor of Arragon, ! with full civiLand military power's ; he'shall"Appoint to 'aW employments,i'make.all regulations, &c. &c. and from the Ist of March-our public treasury shall supply no funds for the thaintepance of _the artuy . bat the cntantry shall furnish w h atever may b e ne . ; -CeSsary. TITLE 3.-Or THE.. GOVERNMENT OF NAVARR-E--" THIRD .GOVERNMENT: )t . N _ . _nee c. .avarre shail, be called the Go vern:bent' Of Navarre. General bufour shall ~C Governor of Navarre, and shall conduct thither the tour .regiments of his division. With respeCt his authority and the maintenance of the army, the same is ordered as with respeel to Arragon. *-. TITLE 4.-OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BISCAY✓"' FOURTH GOVERNMENT. _ . __... T ,.„... Biscay shall be called the Governipeut of Biscay. General ThouvenOt 'shall be Governor. to other respeas the same is ordereii as with regard to Na-, varre: • BADAJOZ, MAY 7.—The French corps; of bee tween 3,and 4000 men , which marched from A 1 mendralejo, with ten pieces of cannon, arrived at Fuente dei Maestro on, the sth. Regnier, with the rest of his division, iJ at Ige'! . rida, and his advanced posts at Mirandilla and Ar" roio de S. Servan. Ballasteros, who was here this day and set ott again, has his division still posted in Fregenal, and that of Imas also remains in Burguilhos. It is certain that the enemy have assembled moot) men at Seville. CA RTII AGENA, APllit. 21. By advices fiom Lorca, we learn that the French, to the number 0 1 6000, were approaching that,city, and it is proba. ble they have this day entered it. We expeaed 3 reinforcement here this day. Should the Vandals attempt an attack, they will find us . completely crepared to resist them. Those marching in 11 ' 13 ' direalion are estimated at about 10,000, and are under the command of Sebastiani. Our army sti ll occupies Murcia and Orihuela.. The greatest' 11 ' thusiasm and an "unprecedented activity prevail i 3 this place. tvitiv.‘y. oitAviszpn, MAY 21. Arrived—the Union, Somber, from Malta. Sailed —the Suspense, Simuionds, for lainaica ; Lord Ne!' son,. I3rind, tor Lisbon ; Aim, Gillespie, and tartar, I (Alli son, for Cadiz. 8!R rti. On Thursday last, at the Manor-House East Aton, Lady of W. E—Allen, Esq. ot a son. ' MARRIED. On Tuesday; at St. James's Church, George Rush, Es'L Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire, to Clarissa, daughter or Sir Willi.rrt Rush, of D/4.D. Oti Friday last, :Elizabeth, Wife of Charles Gilchrist ,. Esq. Surgeon, of Sunbury,. On Sunday morning last. Mrs. Ileathcock, at her honFet Upper—street, Islington. - On Monday, in Siialilk-street, Mrs. ferVais, of Windsor , widow of-the late Thomas lervais,- Esq: On Tuesday last, at Margate, aged ten years, Alexande r, the eldqt-son of atnes.Bo mien,- Esq. The pameday, at his house at Stratford Grove, in Foss e/4 at the advanced age of 78 years, Snel,,rOve, Esq. , Yesterday morning, at the Colonial.and Ilantation Offi ce ' Downing-street,. Mr, Williant-Levvis. At Nottingham, Mr. Williain'Dotibleday- Crofts, Attor ney at Lavy, aged 7a years. • ts Lately, at her. brother's house in Caernarvonshire, N ., •pft 1 , Caerine Edwaids, sist e r of R:,-113rd Edwards, Esq• Ntinhoran-House, the Colo ne : of t . ::z Royal Caernatvonsh lr Militia. 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